Re: [s-d] [s-b] [Change] Ballot for Nweek 178.

[Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wooble wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Gabriel Vistica <gvistica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Also, I think it would be a good idea to have the bot email the s-n list when
>> the Clock goes On or Off. I have found myself forgetting to do things that I
>> want to do when the Clock turns back on (things that I don't want people to have
>> much time to react to) because I didn't know when it "officially" turned on.
> 
> The problem with this at the moment is that the rules annoyingly have
> the clock platonically turn off or stay on conditionally based on
> whether there's a MoC or if the ballot has been published, and the bot
> isn't capable of tracking gamestate like that.

The bot could be set up to be manually informed of such events, and
publish conditional messages as needed, e.g.

  "X happens, unless MoC became vacant and I wasn't informed, in which
   case Y happens instead."

  "At time T, X happened."

> B has in the past had automation that could have done stuff like that,
> although I'm not sure it's a great idea considering the demise of that
> automation ended 2 eras...

If the source code of the automation is available, then someone else can
take it over if the original instance dies.  (I could try, but I don't
remember what hoops I have to jump through to get my server to send
e-mails to the Internet at large.)
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